I kill the above processes (although tried also without killing them):

Code:

killall -9 dhclient

The problem I am experiencing occurs with:

Code:

airodump-ng wlan0

No networks show up even though I know they are there when confirmed previously with Wicd Manager before issuing above commands. The dongle does not show any light activity at this point and going into Wicd shows "No wireless networks found".

It's as if the dongle has stopped working all of a sudden.

I never had the problem when running BT from the live CD and was able to get a list of Wireless networks in airodump-ng without problem.

What am I doing wrong?

01-03-2013, 11:29 AM

maverik35

Re: WIFI working then seems to halt again

first, I have never seen the "down" or "up" parameter in iwconfig...It must be brought up/down using ifconfig (ifconfig wlan0 down or up).
Second, you might not have to kill those proccesses, ...The message is caused because the interface has been set in monitor mode, dhclient is a protocol to connect to an AP and to connect to an AP, interface must be set in managed mode, that is why..being in monitor mode and running dhclient might not affect operation.

I have done it before with my alfa 500 and it runs like a charm even with the message. Read carefully, I use the term "might" and not "will"..Try it as it worked for me with or without killing the dhclient.